PROVINCETOWN — Feel like a little culture? How about a lot — all in one place?

A new website is planned for late spring, to provide a comprehensive calendar of the region's arts events, and a centralized way to purchase event tickets, register for workshops and link to arts websites.

Information meetings about the ArtsCapeCod website are being held this month and in February. The first was Tuesday at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. The next meeting is at 4 p.m. Jan. 22 at the old fire house in Orleans, at 44 Main St.

ArtsCapeCod is an initiative of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, with financial support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. The Arts Foundation is the regional arts agency for Barnstable County, with a mission to strengthen and promote year-round the Cape's arts and cultural industry.

The foundation's primary marketing tool now is a weekly emailed newsletter. "We have a big story to tell," Arts Foundation Executive Director Kevin Howard said Tuesday afternoon in Provincetown. About ten arts and cultural groups were at the meeting "It's time to look at other ways, better ways," he said of marketing strategies.

The Cape has about 275 arts and cultural organizations, and about 3,000 events are held each year, Howard said. The level of sophistication in terms of ticketing and marketing varies widely, though, Howard said, based on research the county agency conducted at the urging of the state cultural council.

"Many of them don't have online ticket capabilities at all," Howard said last week. "We felt there was a tremendous need in that venue, and that we could help. For more sophisticated groups, that already are doing online ticketing, this is another opportunity for them to market their tickets, another outlet." The tickets will be sold at full-price, he said.

The five upcoming meetings will be an opportunity for people and groups who want to use the ArtsCapeCod site to learn what it's all about. The website itself is expected to launch as a trial in May and go live in June, Howard said.

The state cultural council has provided $3,000 to the foundation for planning the initiative and $26,000 over two years for implementation, he said.

The website is based on concepts in place now at ArtsBoston.org.

By a broad definition, the "creative economy" in Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties supported about 8,000 jobs in 2013, according to the Cape and Islands Workforce Investment Board, with the greatest numbers in the two categories: musicians and singers, and writers and authors. The top local employers in the industry are an advertising agency, an architectural services company, a museum, a wired telecommunications carrier and a commercial lithographic printing company.

With a more narrow definition, there are about 2,500 people who are reported by employers to be in the arts, entertainment and recreation sectors on the Cape, according to Cape Cod Commission Chief Economic Development Officer Leslie Richardson. There are a significant number of people who are self-employed in those sectors as well, Richardson said. She said the production of arts, entertainment, and recreation goods and services made up 2.7 percent of the Cape's gross regional product in 2007, the most recent year for which data was available.

"You can consider it an export industry," Richardson said Tuesday. "They're bringing tourism dollars, and that's new money into the region. They're very valuable to the whole tourism economy. It also makes for diversity and innovation, which is all things we're looking to capitalize on.

"Really, our economy is about getting creative people to come and live here."

The ArtsCapeCod website will particularly help groups on the outer reaches of Cape Cod, Provincetown Theater Production Coordinator Sunie Pope said Tuesday by phone from the theater.

The theater already offers online ticket sales and a diverse roster of events. Still, Pope said, "It's very hard to get our name out there. I think it will help us enormously."

The website and the foundation's commitment to the initiative also helps foster a sense of community in the arts scene on the Cape. Also, having one place where patrons can look and buy tickets promotes more ticket sales. "One way to get people to come is to get people to purchase tickets," Pope said. "It's easier for people if they can do all of it within one source."